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5:45 PM ET, October 26, 2007

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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Student's Ad Gets a Remake, and Makes the Big Time  —  The idea that you do not have to be a professional to create a good commercial is becoming widespread, in a trend known as consumer-generated content.  Leave it to Apple to — paraphrasing the company's old slogan a bit — think differently.
Business Week:
A Cautionary Tale for Old Media  —  Early on, the Mercury News saw the Web threat coming.  It's still struggling to survive  —  On Jan. 19, 1990, Robert D. Ingle, then executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News, wrote a remarkably prescient memo to his bosses at the newspaper chain Knight Ridder.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Future is Cloudy  —  When Google this week announced IMAP support for Gmail, it really got me thinking about finally outsourcing my e-mail.  At $50 per year per address, Google Apps Premier Edition is pretty compelling.  For one thing, there are only three cringely.com addresses …
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google's cloud  —  Google not only wants to hold all our data; it also wants to host all our applications.  That, according to Robert Cringely, is the secret meaning behind the recent announcement that Google would be contributing code to MySQL, the popular open-source database.
Ben Rooney / CNNMoney.com:
Microsoft's 'Halo' effect  —  The software giant reports strong sales and profit increases thanks to healthy sales of new video game 'Halo 3' as well as Vista and Office; stock surges after-hours  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft Corp. reported quarterly earnings Thursday …
Discussion: Engadget and Gadgetell
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Mac OSX Leopard: Worth The Wait  —  The long wait for the latest version of Apple' OSX operating system comes to an end today for millions of Mac fans worldwide.  OSX Leopard goes on sale in retail stores at 6pm, although others will receive it earlier by pre-order and courier delivery.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Senate OKs 7 more years of tax-free Net access, e-mail  —  Scarcely a week before an existing ban on Internet access taxes is set to expire, the U.S. Senate late on Thursday voted to let it live on for seven more years.  —  The compromise bill, which was approved by a voice vote …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Senate passes Internet tax moratorium extension: 7 more years tax-free
David Twiddy / Associated Press:
Sprint Nextel agrees to unlock phones  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Wireless subscribers of Sprint Nextel Corp. may no longer have to buy a new phone if they jump to a new carrier.  —  As part of a proposed class-action settlement, the Reston, Va.-based provider, with operational headquarters in Overland Park …
Discussion: Engadget
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:   Sprint unlocking settlement may pressure others to follow
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
MYSPACE LOVE$ FACEBOOK VALUE  —  If Facebook is worth $15 billion, then MySpace is worth $65 billion.  —  That's the take of RBC Capital Markets analyst David Bank, who applied the $357 Microsoft ascribed to each of Facebook's 42 million registered users in Wednesday's deal …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK  —  BOiNK will be a little different from OiNK.  For instance, the tracker will be public and it will start out with a lot less torrents than OiNK had when it was raided.  The success of BOiNK will mainly depend on the former OiNK community, who will be asked to upload their old OiNK torrents.
Discussion: CrunchGear, Mashable!, p2pnet and Digg
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Accused speeder to cops: My GPS proves your radar gun is wrong  —  GPS-based tracking devices don't just help you figure out where you are and where you're going, they might also help you avoid a speeding ticket.  Shaun Malone of California is contesting a speeding ticket in that state …
Karl / DSLreports:
AT&T Wants $300 From Wildfire Victim - They didn't think to grab their Dish network receiver...  I was hit hard by the floods in the Northeast last year.  Everything I owned was destroyed by eight feet of raging mud water.  Obviously, mud and electronics do not play well together …
The Huffington Post:
Bloggingheads Goes Big Time: Little Video Site That Could, Now Adopted By NYT  —  Something else for the NYT's online shopping basket: Bloggingheads!  Like the "Freakonomics" blog before it, lovably wonky political webcam-debate blog Bloggingheads.tv has been adopted by the New York Times …
Discussion: Beet.TV
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
SearchMash, Now in Flash  —  SearchMash, Google's experimental site launched last year to test new user interfaces for search results, has a Flash version (requires IE/Firefox and Flash 9).  The site uses tabs to let you seamlessly switch between different search engines: web search …
 
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Sun Shows NetApp How A Patent Nuclear War Works
Jon Healey / Bit Player:
Court to weigh p2p filtering systems
Discussion: Listening Post
Nick / Rough Type:
Yahoo!?  —  The exclamation mark at the end of Yahoo's official name …
Discussion: Economist
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Facebook: Committed to the sanctity of the social graph
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
No, The Blockbuster Movie Isn't Dead
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Forget Intellectual Property — Think Intellectual Privilege?
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Outsourced Brain  —  The gurus seek bliss amidst mountaintop …
Discussion: 43 Folders
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Internet Cafes Launch in Vietnam
Discussion: Screenwerk
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Richard Parsons set to announce Time Warner exit
Daniel Schuhmann / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Windows Server 2008 Reviewed
Discussion: Slashdot
Vivek Wadhwa / Business Week:
The Science Education Myth
Discussion: Channel 9 and Slashdot
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Strong Halo 3 launch helps Microsoft gaming to first profit in years
Discussion: Forever Geek
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft now admits to WSUS update error
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Fastest Growing Facebook Group Now Has A Million Members
Robert Andrews / Wired News:
'Naughty' Facebook App Throws Real-World Parties
Discussion: broadstuff and Mashable!
 

 
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox Corp. acquires Red Seat Ventures, which helped Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace, Megyn Kelly, Piers Morgan, and others set up their podcast businesses

Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Lee Enterprises says a “cybersecurity event” has disrupted operations at its newspapers since at least February 3, forcing some to not print at all

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Cricket Media, the 50-year-old children's media company known for its namesake print magazine, acquires Sensical, a kids streaming outlet launched in 2021

 
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